New York (CNNMoney.com) - The health care reform bill approved by the Senate on Thursday would do more than any proposal yet to reduce the deficit over time – by an estimated $132 billion over 10 years and by substantially more thereafter.

But reducing the deficit is not entirely synonymous with the oft-stated goal of health reform: reducing the growth rate in health care costs and expenditures – often referred to as "bending the cost curve."

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New Age Independent

Yet, Obama continually tells us that we will save money on our premiums. That companies will spend less and not need to drop insurance coverages. But not one Democrat can explain exactly how it will save the public on their premiums.

December 24, 2009 10:58 am at 10:58 am |

Carl Abernathy

How could this bill tame costs when all the insurance companies have to do is go out of business rather than go bankrupt? Another company (or the government itself) will step in and the taxpayers will be charged for all increases in costs.